Isang Yun (1917-1995), a Korean composer who lived most of his professional life in Germany, was a musician who pursued his art in the face of political, cultural, and personal turmoil. His solo, chamber, and orchestral ...

An examination of the idea of "tribal music" in India reveals that although the construction of tribe and/or tribal music may be fruitfully studied, from an analytical standpoint, the notion of a specifically tribal music ...

This is a comprehensive study of two offertories by Peter von Winter: Excelsus Super Omnes Gentes and Non Mortui Laudabunt Te. The critical editions included in this study were created through the transcription of manuscripts ...

A study of the conditions under which "change" is composed within music. Pitch, tempo, form, and continuity are investigated with regard to how they create or prevent "change". An extended description ...

The opera theater of Count Franz Anton von Sporck was the first standing public opera theater in the city of Prague, creating a taste for opera that has continued in the city until the present day. It also appears to have ...

The development of the verse anthem with strings in Restoration England has been thoroughly researched by many people, and such compositions by Henry Purcell, John Blow, Pelham Humphrey and others are well known. However, ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate, identify and describe John Philip Sousa's techniques in transcribing orchestral compositions for band instrumentation. The transcriptions studied were limited to those for which ...

Kurdziel, Peter T.(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018)

The goal of this doctoral thesis is to place into historical context and to make a modern edition of the Organ Concerto in D major by Gaspero Sborgi (1737-1819). The original organ part in manuscript and the original ...

This dissertation is about the power of sound, how sound influences and is influenced by emotion, how emotion influences national politics, and how those politics spill over into international and intercultural relations. ...

Evidence for the study was garnered from personal interviews of former and current members, guest conductors, and Australian Winds personnel as well as a review of primary source documents. The impact of the Australian ...

This thesis focuses on this crucial decade in Hiller's career. It includes in depth examinations of the four aforementioned works, as well as the technology used in their creation. An overview of Hiller's life and a summary ...

This dissertation concerns itself with the impact that spectral music had on my
musical thought. It begins by examining classic French spectral music of the
1970s and 1980s as developed by the group of composers known ...

In this dissertation I investigate the Christmas Bands Movement of the Western Cape of South Africa. I document this centuries-old expressive practice of ushering in the joy of Christmas through music by way of a social ...